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  On 2/26/2023 at 3:37 PM, tom webster said:

I think KA knows it as well. The “extra year” and the “not blocking a prospect” were just spin after Linus bolted. Analytics experts would scoff that he wouldn’t make up 8 points but even 4 at this point puts them solidly in the playoffs with a puncher’s chance.

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The analytics experts who would scoff need to look up from their stat sheet and watch the games. Stats are a tool---not religious tenets that devotees feel an obligation to adhere to. 

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  On 2/26/2023 at 9:51 PM, Taro T said:

Be interesting to see how much they ended up giving up.  Last night the HNiC guys were saying they doubted there'd be an extension in place before a deal would get made.

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LeBrun confirms there is no extension as of now 

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  On 2/26/2023 at 12:36 AM, Thorny said:

There was factually less parity. It was factually easier to be a dominant team based on the construction and make up of the league during the Habs hey day

is it just a COINCIDENCE those dynasties existed and are now a thing of distant legend? We will never see another Habs or Yankees run again, ever. Because it’s impossible: that’s demonstrably an unequal comparison playing field. 

The Habs just *happened* through luck and genius to be able to put together a run no team will ever come close to again? Just unheard of managerial aptitude? And then the oilers and islanders put together runs of 4 in a row and 4 in 5 years in the next decade just coincidentally? The era favoured and facilitated dominance, there was less parity

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The 70s Habs were in the prime window of the last of the pre-draft players, where the Habs had the rights for every 12 year old that could skate and lived east of Kingston via their Junior affiliations[0]. IMHO, that's what drove that dynasty more than anything.

[0] I'm partly joking about the scope

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